| Acronym | Meaning |
| AOC | Award Of Contract |
| JASON | Group Of Physicists At Stanford That Study Various Projects And Are Funded By Government Defense Money |
| VHF | Very High Frequency |
| NHRE | National Hail Research Experiment |
| ERS-2 | European Remote Sensing |
| AFB | Atmospheric Fluidized Bed |
| MCCS | Mesoscale Convective Complexes |
| ROSE-AIR | Rural Ozone In Southern Environment-Aircraft |
| BFS | Business And Financial Services |
| CCCO | Committee For Climatic Change And The Ocean |